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Friday, November 21, 2014

Home@Walnut Changes (again)

Formerly, this room was my playing room. There is only a computer, and a store room of my equipments. But then when my daughters have to learn piano, I need to spare some rooms and so I sold my C8 and downsized to a C5.

Recently, my daughters requested their own room, so I have to move out from this playing room altogether. My faithful self-design computer desk with storage cabinet has to be thrown away. Actually, the upper half had been discarded when the piano moved in but now the whole thing would be gone soon.

I'll need to find a replacement. Last night, I've measured the window platform of my own room and I found that it was 42" (width) x 22" (depth) and then I could make a cabinet as high as 16" without blocking the windows. This cabinet will be tailor made to store all my existing stuff inside, and I will be taking photographs from inside by using my Nexstar SE mount there and there should be enough room. However, I couldn't use my desktop PC to take images by then and I've to go back to my Eee PC which should suffer from much lower frame rate? Maybe it's time to upgrade with a better computer?

Before it was killed, let's take a photographs in remembrance:

Top most level for my Camera gear which consists of a Canon 450D, a kit lens, a 50mm f1.8, a 8mm fisheye and a Canon 200mm f2.8L plus a Kenko 2x, a couple of manual macro tubes, shutter release, flash, etc. And there are two new members namely the ASI 130mm and ASI 130mc.

On the second level is my trusted Ranger, my Mark-X, eyepieces and accessories box.

On the third slim level is my Canon 10x30 IS, and some miscellaneous stuff.